Routledge Guidebook to Hume’s A Treatise of Human Nature

P. J. E. Kail is Official Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at St Peter’s College, and an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, UK. He is the author of, among other things, Projection and Realism in Hume’s Philosophy (2007), Berkeley’s A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Knowledge (2014), and Simply Nietzsche (2019).

"A welcome and very helpful guide to Hume's masterpiece, A Treatise of Human Nature. Students will find it both accessible and engaging, and even scholars of Hume's Treatise will profit from reading Kail’s book." - Miren Boehm, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA

• Preface and Acknowledgments Abbreviations and Citations to Primary Literature Introduction 1. Of Ideas, Their Origin, Composition, Connexion, Abstraction, Etc. 2. Of the Ideas of Space and Time 3. Of Knowledge and Probability 4. Of the Sceptical and Other Systems of Philosophy 5. Of Pride and Humility, Love and Hatred 6. Of the Will and Direct Passions 7. Of Virtue and Vice in General 8. Of Justice 9. Of the Other Virtues and Vices. Bibliography Index